23 Feb
2004
23 Feb
'04
6:56 p.m.
On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 01:44 PM, Steve Gray wrote:
Perhaps a simpler way to get a truly random bit stream is to amplify and digitize the inherent random electrical noise produced by a resistor at a nonzero temperature. This is not a new idea, obviously, and is probably used in some practical applications.
The Intel hardware RNG is built in part on this. There's a good white paper at http://www.intel.com/design/security/rng/CRIwp.pdf But using quantum physics is so much sexier... --Michael Kleber kleber@brandeis.edu